From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932900AbaEST52 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2014 15:57:28 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:51269 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754809AbaEST50 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2014 15:57:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 22:57:08 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: "Romer, Benjamin M" Cc: Greg KH , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , *S-Par-Maintainer , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] staging: unisys: move uislib/platform proc entry to debugfs Message-ID: <20140519195708.GY15585@mwanda> References: <1399912715-16142-1-git-send-email-benjamin.romer@unisys.com> <1399912715-16142-3-git-send-email-benjamin.romer@unisys.com> <20140518164918.GA10285@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 09:42:22AM -0500, Romer, Benjamin M wrote: > On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 09:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Also, why are these entries moving to debugfs at all? Why are they > > needed? Who will use them? Are tools relying on them to be there? > > The tuning entries are sometimes used to help adjust the behavior of our > IO service partitions for better performance. That sounds like it really belongs in sysfs instead of debugfs. regards, dan carpenter